Yes he is acting strange but BJP has not been fair to Sena in the govt so he is hurt and now the election is for the richest municipality in India and the fear of losing it is driving him crazy to such extent that he is almost cursing BJP in the media.

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Yes he is acting strange but BJP has not been fair to Sena in the govt so he is hurt and now the election is for the richest municipality in India and the fear of losing it is driving him crazy to such extent that he is almost cursing BJP in the media.

BJP looks strong in most part of Mumbai and maybe thats the reason he is praising congress so that they can form a coalition to claim the Municipal Corporation.
Municipality is the only source of earning for Sena at the moment

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Balasaheb was consistently against caste based reservations and this moron 'invites and teams up with' that reservations monger Hardik!
Demonetisation and the 'threat' of transparency has really 'disturbed' him!

The Posters have also embarrassed the party leadership in Mumbai as Shivsena has been caught on the back foot. The Party soughted a report from the local leadership about the posters. "We are totally unaware about such posters. We will have to verify the authencity of it. However, we have sought a report from the local leaders on it." said Arvind Bhonsale, Shivsena leader and spokesperson.
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Meanwhile another poster showing BJP MP from Solapur Sharad Bansode on stage with local NCP leaders too have gone viral on social media, alleging a 'deal" between the NCP and BJP in Solapur.

Can not imagine how Balasaheb would react if he was alive and see this poster.

he was given secret backing by congress in his initial years . then maharashtra chief minister vasantrao naik backed him because he wanted the shiv sena to break the back of the communists who were popular among the marathis ( especially those who worked in cotton mills in mumbai ) at that time . and the shiv sena did a remarkable job of destroying communist power in mumbai and crushing their unions .

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Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Ashok Dhawale, in an article in the April-June 2002 issue of The Marxist, wrote: “In December 1967, the CPI headquarters of Mumbai at Dalvi Building in Parel, which is situated in the very midst of the textile area, was savagely attacked by SS hoodlums and almost destroyed. Organised attempts were made to break up Communist public meetings and several leaders and activists of both the CPI and the CPI(M) were physically assaulted. The climax was reached on June 6, 1970, when armed goondas of the SS murdered the sitting MLA of the CPI, Krishna Desai. Krishna Desai was a popular and militant mass leader in the textile belt and had been elected municipal corporator four times before he was elected to the state assembly in 1967. This was the first major political assassination in Mumbai since Independence, and it sent shock waves through the city and State. The leadership of the entire opposition along with thousands of incensed workers, marched in Krishna Desai’s funeral procession. Opposition leaders directly accused the Shiv Sena and the Congress State government in general, and Bal Thackeray and Vasantrao Naik in particular, of being hand in glove in the perpetration of this heinous crime.”

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Tacit Congress help

The growth of the Sena could not have been possible without the tacit support of the Congress, its ally for some years. Chief Ministers Vasantrao Naik and Vasantdada Patil allowed the Sena to run amok to derive political advantage. Both had good relations with the Sena and used it as a tool to scotch the growth of the trade union movement in the city. The Sena’s Sthaniya Lokadhikar Samiti was formed in 1972 to generate jobs. The trade union wing, the Bharatiya Kamgar Sena, was a rival to the unions in public sector undertakings and banks, and in the service industry. Its main plank was to fight for jobs for the local people. The Sena established a network of shakhas in the city on the lines of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Later, Thackeray supported the Emergency and Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay in a bid to ensure that he would not be jailed. His support for the Congress continued at various times, with the party breaking ranks with the National Democratic Alliance and backing Pratibha Patil for President. In 2012, Pranab Mukherjee visited Thackeray to seek his support — which was given with alacrity.

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